Comment on Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?
hisao@ani.social 1 week agoElon didn’t immediately say “No, I didn’t do the nazi thing.”
He did though: x.com/elonmusk/status/1881746484229763524 My hypothesis: he practiced this and realized what the reaction it would cause, and did it simply to hype himself up. The whole inauguration event in people minds is now associated with Elon doing “sieg heil” while being high on ketamine.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m not seeing him saying it. He did a “what about” and then blamed the media.
Also those are static images he’s showing. A video of those images would show very different hand motions.
hisao@ani.social 1 week ago
I also couldn’t find him directly denying it, and you’re correct those examples in referenced image are no good - in the comments there are video versions of those showing none of them looking anywhere similar to what he did. There are other videos of Macron and Camala doing something remotely similar, but they are fetching their hand far up in front of them in more of a waving to audience gesture, so it doesn’t look like nazi salute at all.